The future of art

Originally from Long Island, Christopher Volpe is an artist, writer, and teacher working and living in New Hampshire. His paintings in tar and gold leaf reference mortality, mysticism, and concern for the fate of a world buying and spending its way toward uninhabitability.

His work is collected internationally and held in the permanent collections of the New Bedford...

Born in Chile, P.X. Miranda has lived in Italy since 1999. She was awarded a scholarship to Davidson College and graduated from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where she won several prizes for her highly regarded oil paintings. Fascinated by history and its notable figures, she uses literature, poetry, and music as inspiration for her paintings.

Medieval tapestry, Renaissance portraiture, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and William Morris designs also underpin her works. She combines these elements in her pieces to create images that have a timeless quality resembling a sort of puzzle. P. X. Miranda paintings unapologetically embrace nature...

Pauline Couble studied applied arts in Paris from 1997 to 2002, first focusing on scenography and the architectural environment in her design training. She then discovered sculpture and synthetic materials and began working with resins and novel molding techniques. She is interested in collaborating with decorators to create unique lighting that illuminate the vast possibilities that resin offers in terms of shape, color, and transparency. At the same time, she is inspired by the living world and organic matter and has begun to create sculptures with undulating shapes reminiscent of forms found in nature. Her artistic project...

Kristin Jai Klosterman is best known for her large-scale mobile sculptures and mixed media paintings. Klosterman focuses on the exchange between contrasting mediums as a means to examine the balance of power between the masculine and feminine. While radically different in terms of presentation, both Klosterman's sculptural and painterly works draw their inspiration from an identical source—the Fibonacci sequence, which occurs spontaneously in nature. 

Klosterman's sculptures are exhibited in numerous public forums in California, Texas, and Tennessee and in private collections domestically as well as abroad...